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Eudora Welty In Perspective.Only 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
This study aims at discussing the theme of human relationships in selected short stories by Eudora
Welty,and her use of everything she has been able to put her hands upon in order to express the
real essence of human beings. Eudora Welty has nurtured in the American South, specifically in
Mississippi. Welty has been famous for her love of this region, which has confronted many
experiences and changes. However, she has not been concerned with depicting the political and
racial themes characterizing the South, and that attracted most of other Southern writers. On the
contrary, Welty has chosen to deal with man in general regardless of his color or nationality. She
has aimed at diagnosing the modern man’s predicaments and exposing the human heart to help ·her
readers in understanding their sufferings and solving them. In doing this, she has used many
methods, as flashbacks, dreams and ,most importantly, mythology. Her use of mythology proves her
belief in the universality of the human characteristics and predicaments, which do not alter
despite the numerous differences in color
and nationalities.
The thesis is divided into three chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter entitled ”Eudora
Welty in Perspective”, places Welty among her fellow Southern American writers, underlining the
differences between their concern and her own. It also deals with the most prominent
characteristics and themes found in her fiction.
Chapter Two is entitled:”The Onlooker”. It tackles this important theme, which is quite prominent
in the writings of the American South. This chapter aims at revealing Welty’s different view of
the Onlooker, who she believes to be inside most of us.
As for Chapter Three ” Medusa and The Modern Man”, it deals with the writer’s manipulation of the
myth of Perseus and Medusa, to express all the hindering circumstances that face the modern man.
The Conclusion discusses how Welty’s characters are a mirror of her own self. It also shows Welty’s
concern with women’s initiating power, and the different conditions that face women preventing them
from changing. This is in addition to tracing Welty’s ability to make use of all the Southern
elements with which she is in love, but at the same time freeing herself from the stereotypes
chaining the writings of the other Southern writers.
Finally,this study shows that the main aim of Eudora Welty has been to prove that man is in a
constant quest to pluck the golden apples from the tree of life. Thus, it is found that Welty,her
characters, as well as ourselves are in an endless search for something: Either a certain position
in life, or for Mve, or thost importantly, for our own identity.